A number of people have been asking how they might find out what is going on with the blog quicker than they might by waiting for the email notifications that come out once a day.
On a phone or iPad this can be done using the Feeder.co app. I only use Mac equipment but believe the Android method is pretty similar.
I searched for the app on the App Store:
Downloading and installing it required that I know my Apple ID password, but was no more complicated than that. Getting it installed only took a couple of minutes, after which it was in my apps:
I then used the search function to find the tax.research.org.uk feeds:
I clicked the follow buttons for the main and comment feeds.
Within a couple of minutes the app was working:
This will not be for everyone, but it is a way to get the blog regularly and seems pretty efficient.
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For those of you who use a non-proprietary Android-like operating system such as e/OS on your smartphone, there is a FOSS RSS feed reader called “Feeder” in the FDroid repository.
You do not need to do anything special to set it up and you can easily search for any RSS feeds you wish to follow.
I have a Feedly account and the App for android, been using it for years for RSS like this site.
Using the RSS feed to get updates is extremely efficient, even if it’s sometimes necessary to click through to get polls or other details. I use feedly.com, which is free with one advert appearing (relatively discretely) in the feed. I pay the annual subscription in order to support the development of products I like, not because it unlocks features I use. Since the death of Google Reader it seems that there is an increase in moves to close feeds and lock people in.
The web browser I use has built-in RSS capabilities (Vivaldi). I just about remember a time when this was considered a standard feature in every browser. It’s a pity it went away, pressing subscribe (and having that actually mean “subscribe”) feels much more personal and direct than getting an algorithmically suggested feed of “content” from a 3rd party siloed website.
Thank you – I seem to have made this work, But to help others, you made a typo above and put a full stop between tax and research, consequently the search facility
did not work !! It has to be taxresearch .
Indeed it does